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'West unjustly pressuring Iran over nuclear fuel proposal'
Feb 18th, 2010 - Press TV
iranian parliament speaker ali larijani has said the west is trying to force iran to give in to the pressure over its nuclear program. on thursday, larijani said the west is telling iran that it must acquire nuclear fuel for the tehran research
Austria threatens Iran with sanctions
Feb 13th, 2010 - Press TV
austria joins the us in stepping up efforts to punish iran over tehran's decision to produce nuclear fuel for a research reactor, warning that sanctions could be in store for the islamic republic. "iran can still return to the negotiating table
Salehi: Iran will produce fuel plates soon
Feb 13th, 2010 - Press TV
suppliers failed to provide fuel for tehran's research reactor which produces medical isotopes for cancer patients. foreign ministry spokesman ramin mehmanparast said iran could not wait for western countries to "waste time" because the tehran
US dismissive of Iran nuclear announcement
Feb 12th, 2010 - Press TV
the white house on thursday said iran's declaration of producing first stock of enriched uranium for a research reactor was based "on politics", and "not on physics." president mahmoud ahmadinejad said thursday that iran had produced the first stock
Iran 'makes first batch of 20% enriched uranium'
Feb 11th, 2010 - BBC NEWS
the more highly enriched uranium for a reactor producing medical isotopes. but western experts say

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Oak Ridge Research Reactor Safety Systems 1958
In 1953, the Oak Ridge Atomic Laboratory received approval to build a new research reactor from the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). With a thermal power rating of 20 MW, its neutron flux-the neutron beam intensity so critical ...
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Gingerbread Research Reactor
Roughly modeled off a TRIGA Mark 1 reactor, featuring candycane central thimble and control rods, red candycane fuel rods (didn't work out as well as I would hoped - they are neither close-packed nor much of an array), Cerenkov Sweet Tarts (even though there's no pool, gasp!) ...
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Indian Nuclear Assets Danger to the World
While the western media and the western governments keep shouting about vulnerability of Pakistans nuclear arsenal and keep expressing the fears that these are likely to fall in the hands of extremists like Taliban, they have ...

Research Reactor from WikiPedia:

Research reactors are nuclear reactors that serve primarily as a neutron source. They are also called non-power reactors, in contrast to power reactors that are used for electricity production, heat generation, or submarine propulsion.

The neutrons produced by a research reactor are used for non-destructive testing, analysis and testing of materials, production of radioisotopes, research and public outreach and education. Research reactors that produce radioisotopes for medical or industrial use are sometimes called isotope reactors. Reactors that are optimised for beamline experiments nowadays compete with spallation sources.

Research reactors are simpler than power reactors and operate at lower temperatures. They need far less fuel, and far less fission products build up as the fuel is used.